Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh criticizes Prime Minister Modi’s silence on alleged Ram temple donation irregularities, calling it an “assault” on public faith (File photo enhanced with AI) NEW DELHI: Amid the controversy over alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple, the Congress has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” on the purported…
NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk‘s indefinite hunger strike entered its third day on Tuesday at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, where the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) has been staging a protest since June 20, demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in competitive examinations.According to the CJP, Wangchuk’s blood sugar level…
NEW DELHI: All four NCR states — Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan — are expected to notify the policy to waive off motor vehicle tax or road tax for buying new trucks and buses running on clean fuel after scrapping their old pre-BS-VI heavy commercial vehicles, a senior road transport ministry official said on…
Delhi is undertaking a month-long special intensive revision of its electoral roll, with over 13,000 booth-level officers verifying nearly 1.5 crore electors door-to-door. (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Over 13,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) will fan out across the city from Tuesday to begin a month-long special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, covering nearly 1.5…
NEW DELHI: Delhi cabinet Monday rejected a proposal to extend incentives to hybrid vehicles, opting instead to keep the capital’s new electric vehicle policy focused exclusively on battery-powered or “pure EVs”.The newly approved Delhi EV Policy 2026 introduces a three-year lock-in period, barring beneficiaries of govt subsidies from registering their electric vehicles in other states…
New Delhi: An 18-year-old specially abled youth who went missing from Dwarka was reunited with his family after police tracked him down using a single clue provided by his father — the teenager loved drinking tea and often stopped at roadside tea stalls whenever he ventured out.The youth, a resident of Sector 6, went missing…
New Delhi: The city Monday continued to reel under heatwave conditions for the second straight day.However, after a thunderstorm hit Delhi in the evening, parts of the capital saw the mercury dip. India Meteorological Department has predicted the heatwave is likely to abate on Tuesday.The maximum temperature at Safdarjung, the city’s base station, was 42.2…
New Delhi: The city on Monday recorded its highest-ever peak power demand at 8,748 megawatts (MW), surpassing this season’s previous high of 8,647 MW, logged on June 18.Monday’s record electricity consumption was driven largely by the widespread use of air-conditioners and cooling appliances as the city continued to reel under sweltering heat with ‘feels-like’ temperatures…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested a woman who, along with her sister’s friend, allegedly attempted to extort her husband — a businessman — amid an ongoing domestic dispute and plotted to eliminate her mother-in-law. Police have also arrested the friend, who was allegedly in contact with gang members and had sent threat messages to…
New Delhi: One Delhi govt teacher was appointed as a trained graduate teacher (TGT) over two decades ago but never entered a classroom. He has spent his entire career in administrative offices, eventually rising through the ranks without ever teaching a single class, according to a school official. This, he said, is not an isolated…
